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[HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
14/05/2024 10:25:23 PM
Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
NT
Black-footed Albatross*
Id (Atlas):
Phoebastria nigripes
Description (10 )
Black-footed Albatross
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Other Scientific Names
Diomedea nigripes [Cramp and Simmons (1977-1994)], Diomedea nigripes [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Diomedea nigripes [Stotz et al. (1996)], Diomedea nigripes [Turbott (1990)]
Family
Diomedeidae (Albatrosses)
Size
62 - 82 cm
Wingspan: 193 - 220 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Audubon, 1849)
Canada (NB), China (mainland) (NB), Eastern Central Pacific (B) (NB), Guam (NB), Japan (B), Marshall Islands (NB), Mexico (NB), Micronesia [Federated States of] (NB), Northeast Pacific (NB), Northwest Pacific (B) (NB), Russia (Asian) (NB), South Korea (NB), Taiwan (China) (NB), United States Minor Outlying Islands (B), USA, Western Central Pacific (NB).
Vagrant to New Zealand.
Unknown to Northern Mariana Islands, Palau.
Western Hawaii; small numbers in Izu, Bonin and southern Ryukyu Is, to south of Japan.
 
Population
Estimated population is 120,000 (2010) and decreasing.
Status NT
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (21)... )
Listen to XC165981
Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes ) [XC165981 ]
by david m from Sand Island, Midway Atoll, United States (call, bill clappering)
Listen to XC167068
Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes ) [XC167068 ]
by david m from Sand Island, Midway Atoll, United States (call, bill clappering)
Subspecies
Known to have hybridized with Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis ).
No subspecies.
References
See References .
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Black-footed Albatross see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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